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2025 Benton County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Benton County, WA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Washington average 7.0 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 33 Washington counties and 2763rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 17, 2025 11:00 | December 18, 2025 01:30 | 14h 30m | 2,548 | 4,218 |
| 2 | October 26, 2025 03:45 | October 28, 2025 23:45 | 2d 20h | 1,497 | 2,540 |
| 3 | December 13, 2025 23:30 | December 14, 2025 23:30 | 1d | 1,303 | 7,916 |
| 4 | December 10, 2025 16:45 | December 11, 2025 06:45 | 14h | 1,071 | 3,025 |
| 5 | September 10, 2025 01:45 | September 10, 2025 03:15 | 1h 30m | 1,064 | 1,069 |
| 6 | July 29, 2025 15:15 | July 29, 2025 18:30 | 3h 15m | 1,028 | 794 |
| 7 | September 29, 2025 05:15 | September 29, 2025 12:30 | 7h 15m | 1,020 | 7,395 |
| 8 | April 9, 2025 00:15 | April 9, 2025 13:00 | 12h 45m | 1,014 | 2,283 |
| 9 | April 12, 2025 23:45 | April 14, 2025 22:45 | 1d 23h | 920 | 314 |
| 10 | June 19, 2025 14:30 | June 20, 2025 00:15 | 9h 45m | 529 | 1,595 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 48 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.67 | 2.0 hrs | 1.11 |
| Benton Rural Electric Assn | 2024 | 31.4 hrs | 1.41 | 2.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| City of Richland - (WA) | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County | 2024 | 53 min | 0.50 | 40 min | 0.40 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Klickitat County | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County,bentonpud | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Washington's customers in 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 80,351 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, WA annual power outage report, 2025, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2025/washington/benton-county